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The Feynman Technique To Summarize A Book
One can make use of Deepstash and summarize a book using the Feynman note-taking technique. Write a few paragraphs about the book as if you are explaining it to someone who has not heard about it.
Explaining an idea to a beginner is the best way to learn and also reveals the gaps in our thinking.
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Reading Books Is Like Changing Your Past
- Gaining knowledge isn’t the only reason we have to read books.
- A good book read with curiosity and an open mind can change our life.
- Reading books is like updating the software inside your brain, and a good book gives us new ways to interpret our past and present life.
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Combining Knowledge Trees
A book is not an island, but a ‘knowledge tree’ with branches that can be linked to other knowledge trees, forming a connection beyond what the book offers us. When we read something that reminds us of something else, we get a spark that connects to other ideas, forming new fractal insig...
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Choose What You Can Use
One needs to pick and choose books that can make us quickly implement the advice provided by the book. If the stuff written in the book resonates with you and you want to instantly try it out in the practical world(like waking up at 5:00 am after reading The 5 am Club), then you are more...
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Reading The Book Twice
Anything worth reading is worth reading twice, or even again and again. Just like a great song sounds better after you have listened to it a few times, a great book will give you new insights every time you read it. You will find older passages and ideas relevant to you which were ignored when yo...
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Creating Searchable Notes
An idea is useful only if we can find it when we need it, and the best way for saving ideas is to keep notes of what we read, using Deepstash of course!
Important messages, insights and points need to be saved and reread, as it is the only way they will be in your long-term memory....
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“Learning one new idea won’t make you a genius, but a commitment to lifelong learning can be transformative.”
JAMES CLEAR
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One Book Isn’t Enough
Reading just one book and forming a belief system is plain stupidity. A book is not a commandment by itself but something that opens up our mind towards new ways of thinking. A mind needs to be subjected to diverse books, otherwise, it forms a personal belief system based on little or no experien...
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Four Steps Of The Feynman Technique
The technique is based on the method Richard Feynman originally used.
There are four steps to the Feynman Technique:
- Pretend to teach a concept you want to learn about to a child.
- Identify gaps in your explanation. Fill the gaps by g...
The Feynman Technique
The Feynman Technique is a way to understand or reinforce your level of knowledge by pretending to explain the same to a child.
Explaining without the use of complicated words is a way to learn and retain knowledge that lasts.
The Feynman Learning Technique
The Feynman Learning Technique is a way to supercharge your learning.
Learning doesn't happen from browsing through a book or remembering enough to pass an exam. We learn information when we can explain it and use it in several situations. The Feynman Learn...
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